Word: jig
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...choreographers. Even Impresario Sol Hurok got into the act: at his request, several mime sequences were telescoped to enliven the pace. The result is a bravura hodgepodge of Spanish and gypsy dances, pas de deux, a smattering of light-footed cupids and dryads and, for some obscure reason, a jig resembling a French apache dance...
...know he had a no-hitter going, he must have wondered why nobody talked to him in the dugout. He struck out the side in the eighth, again in the ninth, and when he fogged one last fast ball past Pinchhitter Harvey Kuenn, he danced a little jig on the mound. He had won his 22nd game, 1-0. His 14 strikeouts gave him a total of 332 for the season-just 16 shy of Bob Feller's alltime record. More important, he had become the eighth man in modern baseball history to pitch a perfect game...
...nick-name, but stopped abruptly. Like some great bear trap, his mind had snapped into action. "Of course! the Bronze Rhinoceros is a nickname!" Just at that moment Bundle looked up and saw an immense dark--skinned man lumber down the University Hall steps. All at once the jig-saw pieces fit together, and Bundie knew he was right. He dashed behind the building and cautiously peered around the corner...
Traditionally the jigsaw puzzle depicted placid pastoral scenes. By comparing picture with puzzle, puzzlers could assemble pieces by color or line, put the whole thing together in jig time. Easier to win at than solitaire and less demanding than a novel, it was a relaxing remedy for rainy afternoons and hospital confinements. But that was before Springbok Editions sprung its pasteboard version of Jackson Pollock's "Convergence...
Finally in the spring of 1963, Thompson realized the jig was up when he saw two men in a nearby car taking pictures of him and Kudashkin. "I knew it was the FBI; Kudashkin was sloppy in his work," Thompson explained. Shortly after that Kudashkin went back to Russia for "imperative family reasons." FBI men continued to watch Thompson for 15 months, finally picked him up in August 1964, and he began to spill his story to agents. Most of it was not news to them. The FBI had been spying on Thompson's spying ever since he came...